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There's plenty of doom and gloom at this year's Paris Motor Show, as Europe faces a shrinking auto market. Among the many new conventional cars, meant to assuage customers by offering fuel economy and comfort, there are a few standouts.
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Chief among them is the F-Type: Jaguar's long anticipated successor to the iconic E-Type.
The British luxury auto maker formally unveiled the new ride on Wednesday night. Singer Lana Del Rey, tapped as the celebrity face of the F-Type for her sexy but classy image, was on hand to perform the number she wrote for the occasion.
The new F-Type is a big deal for Jaguar, which says it is the first true sports car it has produced since 1974, when the long-hooded E-Type was discontinued, The New York Times reported.
The standard F-Type starts at $69,000; the V8 S at $92,000.
This is a Series I E-Type, one of the best sports cars ever built.
Senior editor Alex Davies helms Insider's Transportation vertical, where he first worked from 2012 to 2014. In the interim, he spent six years at Wired, where he launched the transportation section and specialized in covering autonomous and electric vehicles. His book chronicling the origin of and race to create the self-driving car, Driven, is now out in paperback.A native New Yorker, he lives in Oakland, California.
